Game 7 Is Tonight
June 12, 2009… and after all the hard-fought series of 2009, there’s only one more thing to say: Let’s Go Pens.
Posts Tagged ‘Sports’
My New Favorite Art
January 11, 2009Vielen danke aus Anselm Feuerbach. I would retitle this “Sunday, January 18, 2009”.
Winter Classic 2009: Solid, But I Liked Last Year
January 1, 2009I tuned in for periods 2 and 3 of today’s NHL Winter Classic game, which saw Chicago get destroyed by the Red Wings in a comeback victory. (The Red Wings are always pulling this garbage against my favorite teams. Jagoffs.) The game didn’t have quite the finish that last year did, and I naturally wasn’t […]
Michigan 27, Wisconsin 25
September 27, 2008What a come-from-behind Michigan victory today! Twenty points in the fourth quarter to beat the ninth-ranked Badgers. And guess who left the stadium early after a totally disgusting Michigan first half, convinced this is the year to go back to being a Northwestern (now 5-0) fan? Whoops. But at least I have lots of company […]
Beaten Bucs
September 7, 2008I hope this gets more news coverage than I expect it will, but the Pittsburgh Pirates are now tied for the longest streak of losing seasons in North American pro sports history. My past two job descriptions didn’t even exist during their last winning season. So congrats to you, Nutting family, for this fantastic record […]
Myron Cope, 1929-2008
February 27, 2008It’s probably to easy to slip into sappiness in the wake of Mahrn’s passing, but I won’t forget listening to the never-ending parade of fall-evening “first-time callers” as my dad had the radio tuned to Cope’s show in the evenings. Myron might be more famous as a clown and one of the first wacky sports […]
The One Downside to the Giants’ Victory
February 4, 2008”As for the 1972 Dolphins, I don’t take joy in the fact the Patriots lost – period,” said Jim Mandich, the tight end on the 17-0 team. ”But I do relish and savor the fact that there has only been one unbeaten team in the history of the NFL, and it is the 1972 Miami […]
A Grateful Nation Rejoices
February 3, 2008Wow! A thinking football fan would say I should have been happy if the Patriots had won and decisively proved their worth as the best team in the past however-many years. Yes, I would have dryly appreciated that. But on a purely emotional and more powerful level, I’m incredibly happy that the Giants won, and […]
Barry Bonds: True Greatness
August 8, 2007Yay Barry! Yay baseball! I would like to take this post to acknowledge that, unlike Rick Reilly or any of the sports media world’s other garment-rending, tsk-tsking tradition police, I’m taking a real stand on Barry Bonds’ new MLB career homerun record: This is the greatest thing to happen in baseball in 30 years, and […]